Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul-Smith Goodson is an analyst covering quantum computing and AI. Last year I wrote a Forbes article that provided a deep dive ...

For more than 40 years, we have been building the modern internet on foundations that were never designed for the world we live in today. When the architects of the early internet created its ...

New research suggests that a quantum computer could crack a crucial cryptography method with just 10,000 qubits.

Quantum encryption, born from the quantum computing revolution, heralds a new era of unprecedented security. This technological advancement not only promises impenetrable encryption but also reshapes ...

Remember Nokia? Back before smartphones, many of us carried Nokia's nearly indestructible cell phones. They no longer make phones, but don't count Nokia out. Ever since the company was founded in 1865 ...

The very prospect of the quantum apocalypse has driven various stakeholders to consider what that could be like and how to ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has debuted three encryption algorithms that it claims will help safeguard critical data from cyber attacks originating from quantum ...

One day soon, at a research lab near Santa Barbara or Seattle or a secret facility in the Chinese mountains, it will begin: the sudden unlocking of the world’s secrets. Your secrets. Cybersecurity ...

Will quantum computers crack cryptographic codes and cause a global security disaster? You might certainly get that impression from a lot of news coverage, the latest of which reports new estimates ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...